Suspender-tab.



A. J. SULLIVAN. SUSPENDER TABL AIPPLICATL'ON FILED SEPT.)29, 1914.

Patented J lily 31; 19171 GU01 uc 1,

ANDREW J; SULLIVAN, or FRANKLIN, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed September 29, 1914. Serial No. 864,064.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. SULLIVAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Franklin, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Tabs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to suspender tabs, and one of the principal objects of the in vention is to provide an elastic tab for the back of a suspender, in which means are provided for connection of a cord of a single piece forming two loops, one for each of the shoulder straps, and at the opposite end a pulley being provided for permitting the back suspender ends to move freely thereto.

Another object of the invention is to provide a back tab for suspenders in which provision is made for the connection of the shoulder strap and means being provided for adjusting the length of the tab at the back anal for connection of the rear suspender en These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the back tab made in accordance with this invention. and showing the shoulder straps connected thereto and broken away, and showing the back suspender ends broken away.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing. the numeral 1 designates the back tab which is formed from a single piece of elastic webbing and provided with an adjusting buckle 2. At the lower end the elastic webbing passes through a loop 3, and to which is pivoted at 4 a grooved support 5, the grooved pulley being pivoted at 6 to permit the rear suspender end 7 to reeve freely through the same and bear upon the grooved pulley 8, as shown in Fig. 2.

At the upper end of the tab 1 a loop 9 is connected by means of stitches extending through the two layers of the tab 1 and pivoted to the loop 9 is a metal bearing 10 having a grooved pulley 11 mounted on a pintle 12 within the bearing and said bearing being pivoted at 13 to a metal clip 14. The terminal ends of a cord 15 are clamped in the metal clip 14, thus forming two divergent loops 16, and said cord extending through curved slides 17 connected to the shoulder straps 18. The cord 15 extends through the bearing 10 and under the grooved pulley 11.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that the construction of the suspender tab is simple in construction, and provides for a cord of a single piece in which there are three distinct sliding connections to the tab and to the shoulder strap. while the rear suspender ends are connected to a pivoted bearing and said ends adapted to slide over a grooved roller or pulley and the back tab being adjustable in length.

Various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit and. scope of the invention as defined in the claim.

What is claimed is In combination, a tab, a loop connected to one end of the tab and having its medial portion off set outwardly, of a metal support comprising sections, one end of each section bent back upon itself and into one another forming a barrel which barrel is pivotally secured to the 011 set portion of the loop hingedlv connecting the support thereto, said sections curved upwardly and outwardly from their connected ends forming a casing. a horizontal pintle journaled to the opposing faces of the sections, a pulley journaled on said pintle and located within the casing, the extreme ends of said sections curved inwardly and connected together, a metal clip having opposite side flanges and having its lower end pivotally secured to the upper ends of each of the sections, a cord extending through the sections of the metal support and trained over the pulley and having its free ends arranged between thefianges of the metal clip, said flanges bent into con- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature tact therewith and securely holding the clip in presence of two Witnesses. and cord in engagement With one another 7 s ANDREW" J. SULLIVAN. and retaining the cord therein to provide a Witnesses:

5 pair of oppositely extending supporting I HERBERT L. METCALFE, loops. 7 JAMES H. RIORDAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

